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Georgia

Moscow Sees No Georgia Effort On Relations

Kovalenko (right) with President Mikheil Saakashvili today (InterPressNews)

January 31, 2007 -- The Russian ambassador to Georgia said Tbilisi has failed to respond to Russia's latest steps to improve strained bilateral relations.

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January 31, 2007

Vyacheslav Kovalenko was speaking to reporters after presenting his credentials to President Mikheil Saakashvili today.

He also said that recent Georgian reports about uranium smuggling by a Russian national were based on "distorted information."

"We have recently seen deliberately distorted information with an openly anti-Russian subtext about uranium allegedly smuggled from Russia [into Georgia]," Kovalenko said. "I consider such attacks on Russia unacceptable and, of course, this does not help in creating conditions for resolving pressing issues in Russian-Georgian relations."

Kovalenko returned to Tbilisi last week, four months after he was recalled by Moscow amid a spying row.

(Reuters, ITAR-TASS)

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